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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nAkash Anand is co-founder and CEO of Clueso, which builds AI tools for creating product videos and documentation for marketing, support, sales and training teams. Clueso went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch. Anand studied at IIT Madras, and the Y Combinator profile lists earlier work at the Centre For Innovation (CFI).\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/\n- X: https://x.com/realAkashAnand\n\n## What Akash builds\n\n- [Clueso](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clueso-video.md), graded F, 36.3/100, in Video generation. Clueso creates editable videos and supporting articles from agent instructions. Its hosted MCP server can manage projects, clips, voiceovers, media, templates and exports within a signed-in workspace. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Neel Balar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/neel-balar/), Co-founder and CBO\n- [Prajwal Prakash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/prajwal-prakash/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [f7 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/f7-ventures/)\n- [Dharana Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dharana-capital/)\n- [Founders Future](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-future/)\n- [Neotribe Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neotribe-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Akash Anand?\n\nAkash Anand is co-founder and CEO of Clueso, which builds AI tools for creating product videos and documentation for marketing, support, sales and training teams. Clueso went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch. Anand studied at IIT Madras, and the Y Combinator profile lists earlier work at the Centre For Innovation (CFI).\n\n### What does Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Clueso from Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso). Clueso creates editable videos and supporting articles from agent instructions. Its hosted MCP server can manage projects, clips, voiceovers, media, templates and exports within a signed-in workspace.\n\n### Who has invested in Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, f7 Ventures, Dharana Capital, Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures.\n\n### How are Akash's tools graded?\n\nClueso is graded F, 36.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clueso\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1159730-akash-anand\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/\n- https://twitter.com/realAkashAnand\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156693-neel-balar\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/\n- https://twitter.com/BalarNeel\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156437-prajwal-prakash\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/\n- https://www.clueso.io/\n- https://help.clueso.io/getting-started\n- https://www.clueso.io/contact\n- https://help.clueso.io/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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